Hair v. State

JONE-S, Presiding Judge.

Garland Hair was convicted in the District Court of Pontotoc County for receiving stolen property and was sentenced to serve 4 years in the penitentiary. The proof of the State showed that on the night of November 10, 1954, a check protector and blank checkbook belonging to the Webco Drilling Company of Ada was stolen. Approximately one month later this property was discovered by a farmer in a small wash house at the back of a vacant house into which the farmer was moving. The sheriff was notified and the check protector together with a few blank checks still remaining…